Where did Adaline's money come from?

She put a little away for a very long time...

I just figured since she bought them back in the day they were pretty cheap then she just holds on to them and moves back to the same places every couple of decades. Then later on the Xerox money. In her place some of the clothing looked really old.

She had shares in Xerox remember.

I questioned that, too, until the Xerox stock scene. Seems like we were introduced to her long enough after she acquired the stock, to explain why she was so well off, in her "later years".

Sing until your throat hurts, dance until your legs hurt, act until you're William Hurt.

After 80 years of working, dont you think she would've accumulated some savings????

They make a brief "nod" to possible wealth, when they show her at a bank (putting her new identity on her accounts) and later when they show her buying Xerox stock in the 1950s or 60s.

However, this is an idea they could have a lot more creativity and fun with! Did she buy Apple stock....in 1981? (Of course if she bought ENRON stock instead, she might be a homeless -- but young -- lady living in a cardboard box!).

Interestingly, they did not choose to show Adaline profiting from the explosive growth in California real estate over her lifetime. If she had bought a house with the insurance proceeds of her husband's death (in 1937) and still owned that property in 2015....she'd be worth many millions of dollars. Enough that she would never have to work.

Here is a real life example: my great aunt moved to California in the 1920s. They were not wealthy -- her husband was a barber -- but during the Great Depression, he had the chance to buy the little strip of shops where his barber shop was located....for about $4000. A lot of money then. They took on a big mortgage for the time. BUT....by the 1940s, it was paid off. And in the 50s, most of the strip was rented by....the US Post Office. Basically, the family became millionaires. Today that strip is worth tens of millions of dollars. Nobody in the family has to work, they live off the huge rents. The Post Office is quite a reliable tenant, plus they have other tenants.

They could have done something for Adaline along those lines. San Francisco is the most costly housing market in the US! with little 1 bedroom shacks that cost $1 million!

BTW: she is never depicted as owning her own home, but living in a nice older apartment -- perhaps one she has rented all this time? But that is never implied or alluded to! (How would she explain to the landlord about her identity changes? or deal with rent that went from $45 a month to $4500 a month -- literally?) Had she, at any time in the last 75 years, bought a HOUSE in San Francisco, she would have been a very wealthy woman and not needed any sort of "library job". Not to mention money to travel or help her daughter.

Amazing nobody thought of this. Hollywood is a town where, after moviemaking, the MOST DISCUSSED TOPIC is probably real estate and real estate prices.

Living in San Francisco. She invested in Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo and of course Xerox.

It's that man again!!

This was the one part of the movie that drove me nuts. Yes she invests in the stock market, and wisely at that. and we can assume this is where her wealth comes from. But Adeline was not a time traveler. She didn't have any more knowledge about the stock market than anyone else. It was just time and smart investing that earned her money. But I hated that they portrayed it as her having some kind of inside knowledge to invest in Xerox. They really dropped the ball in my opinion and they ended up conveying time travel more than immortality.